Integra Automation Bundle
Waiver type - Procurement: Nonavailability
Agency: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (7529) • Product Service Code (PSC) : 6640 | Last Modified: 08/17/2024
Procurement Summary
The TNC’s responsibility is to aid other labs, primarily at NINDS but also throughout the NIH, in translating their basic science discoveries into potential therapeutics. One technology the TNC is using to better understand therapeutic targets in single-cell (sc)-RNAseq. The group has piloted Parse Biosciences scRNAseq protocol and found that it works well. The protocol will be used at larger scale and in order to improve precision, accuracy, and efficiency it needs to be automated. Parse Biosciences has partnered with Integra Biosciences to develop a workflow that completely automates their scRNAseq protocol. The protocol can be used to process up to a million cells and sixteen samples in one run. The purchase of this equipment will allow the TNC to scale up its capacity to run many samples for scRNAseq analysis in a timely and efficient manner and provide collaborators with critical information that can be used to better translate their findings into the clinic.
Waiver Rationale Summary
Based on the information explained in the findings herein, the feasibility of foregoing the requirement or providing a United States manufactured substitute has been considered and a domestically manufactured item meeting the Government’s need is not mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available commercial quantities and of a satisfactory quality.
Yes
Yes
Consistent with Policy
LABORATORY EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES
334516 - Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
08/09/2024
N/A
N/A
Pre-solicitation
Between 6 months and 1 year
Individual Waiver
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH